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They questioned his sanity, threatened to get him fired from his post at Princeton, and accused him of being a pawn of the coal or oil industries. Some took his study as an attack on the wind industry, and he was besieged with nasty e-mails. In 2004, the environmental engineer and atmospheric modeller Somnath Baidya Roy, then at Princeton University in New Jersey, published work showing turbulence created by turbines would, among other effects, lead to vertical mixing of energy and heat in atmospheric layers that would affect local temperatures, and possibly change evaporation patterns (S.

Wind farms, however, may affect regional or global environmental systems - although to suggest this can draw rapid scorn from windpower proponents. One expert said the idea that a wind farm could have such a dramatic and demonstrable effect was “silly”. And given Nature’s conversations with atmospheric modellers outside China, people are not likely to find any. There is no solid scientific evidence that wind turbines can trigger major changes in rainfall. But in this case, the dismissive official quoted probably has a point. It is good to see that the newspaper, Hong Kong’s most prominent English-language daily, retains a critical stance towards the Chinese government under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy, and is willing to put Chinese officials on the spot. There have been similar attacks on wind energy in Texas and elsewhere. The article concludes that “wind power is not completely green”. The article also quoted an engineer in the government’s renewable-energy department who hastily dismissed concern over the effect of wind farms, refused to acknowledge the need for research, and asserted the overarching necessity for China to develop wind energy. The article cited herdsmen in a village in Inner Mongolia who say rain stopped falling after the establishment of a nearby wind farm, and meteorologists who backed up the observation with a few years’ data that show low precipitation. Ill wind turbines wreck the environment? Last month, the South China Morning Post published a news story that contained a thinly veiled attack on China’s wind industry. Politics must not block research where it is needed. Some legitimate questions have been raised over the green credentials of wind turbines. HOT WATER Huge shift in amphibian breeding blamed on global warming p.1004ĪLVIN $40-million upgrade gives veteran submersible a new lease of life p.1006

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